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Obit watch: July 17, 2012.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

Some of these have been noted on FARK or elsewhere, but I want to round them up here for completeness:

Stephen R. Covey.

Kitty Wells, noted country singer. (“It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”) (A/V Club.)

John Lord, keyboard player for Deep Purple.

I also wanted to say a few words about Donald J. Sobol. (NYT. WP. A/V Club. Patrick @ Balko.) I got a great deal of enjoyment out of Mr. Sobol’s work when I was young, and I am saddened by his death (though 87 is a good run).

As regular readers know, I generally do not solicit donations here. But I would like to note that in lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to the New York Public Library to support services for kids. You can donate here, if you’d like.

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Things you may have wondered about. (#4 in a series)

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

We haven’t had one of these in a while, and this is a pretty good one.

What ever happened to Bob Dylan’s guitar?

Specifically, what ever happened to the 1964 Fender Stratocaster that Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965? You know, the one that prompted noted “folk icon” Pete Seegar to try to unplug Dylan?

The PBS “History Detectives” say they’ve found the guitar, which has been stored in some woman’s attic for 50 years.

Dylan’s attorney says he still has the guitar.

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Quote of the day.

Monday, June 18th, 2012

“…these apps are nothing but digitally-enabled takeout menus for that ‘It puts the lotion on its skin’ guy from Silence of the Lambs.”

—Tam

(Also, it gives me an excuse to link to this, which I don’t think I’ve linked to before. Kind of a catchy tune, if you ask me.)

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A little night music.

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Continuing with our theme of musical interludes, how about a little sherbet as a palate cleanser?

This is another song that I was listening to a lot in 2006 (along with “The Walls Came Down”: “It’s a song of assassins ringing in your ears/We got terrorist thinking playing on fears”). It still has a lot of resonance with me as a song about hope and faith and belief. Not necessarily in a religious sense; there’s not a whole lot of religion in this song, but the message is still clear.

“For people like us, in places like this, need all the hope that we can get…”

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Obit watch: May 4, 2012.

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Daring Fireball is quoting sources as reporting the death of Adam Yauch, aka “MCA” of the Beastie Boys, aka “Sir Stewart Wallace”, aka “Nathan Wind”.

To be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of the Beastie Boys, with the exception of two songs. One is “Rock Hard”. And the other? Like you couldn’t guess.

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Random notes and obits: April 19, 2012.

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Today’s NYT has a longer followup article about Officer Loor.

I thought I’d wait until this morning to post the Dick Clark obits, since that gives the papers a chance to pull stuff together: NYT. LAT. Onion A/V Club.

The AP is also reporting the death of Greg Ham, of “Men At Work” fame.

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Obit watch: April 6, 2012.

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Enough said.

Nigel Tufnel’s amps were Marshalls.

In a tribute on Twitter, Mötley Crüe’s bassist, Nikki Sixx, said Mr. Marshall had been “responsible for some of the greatest audio moments in music’s history — and 50 percent responsible for all our hearing loss.”

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Speaking of New Orleans…

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

…the headline on this story had me all excited:

A Shotgun Near You celebrates first year

Then I clicked through. Apparently they mean something different by a “shotgun”, something involving music and house parties.

Too bad, because I think a shotgun near you is a good idea.

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Obit watch: come and listen to my story about a man named Earl…

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

…Earl Scruggs, that is.

Edited to add: By way of FARK, here’s a nice tribute to Earl Scruggs from the New Yorker.

Edited to add 2: The Onion A/V Club’s very nice obituary.

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Obit watch: March 1, 2012.

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Davy Jones (NYT).

Edna Milton Chadwell, the last madam at the notorious “Chicken Ranch” in La Grange.

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Listen all y’all, it’s an arbitrage…

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Nothing to see here, just me being silly. And yes, it is true that I do my own stunts.

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Please pass the popcorn.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

And by “popcorn”, I mean “Popcorn Sutton’s Tennessee White Whiskey”.

Microdistilleries are now legal in Cocke County, Tennessee. And a guy named Jamey Grosser is making whiskey in the style of the late great Popcorn Sutton.

Interestingly, one of Grosser’s partners in the venture is Hank Williams, Jr.

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Obit watch: special “Crack is whack” edition.

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Whitney Houston, dead at 48.

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Stuff your sorries in a sack, Mister!

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Sorry, folks. Yesterday got a big hole blown in it due to a flat tire and associated wrangling, but there really hasn’t been much going on.

At least, not much that hasn’t been well-blogged elsewhere, such as the “tuba raid” story. (No, “Tuba Raid” is not a sequel to the great John Varley story “Air Raid”. But I’d love to see someone write “Tuba Raid”. I’d suggest the idea to John Scalzi, but I suspect he’s busy editing the “Stunning Stoat Stories” anthology.)

I was doing a bit of research for a post snarking on Mexico’s confiscation of 15 tons of meth. However, Jacob Sullum got there ahead of me. (There was a great discussion somewhere, earlier this week, involving people pushing back against new laws requiring prescriptions for pseudoephedrine-containing drugs. I swear it was on “Hit and Run” but I can’t find it now.)

Lawrence asked me a few days ago if the news that Carolyn McCarthy’s district was going to be axed had me doing the happy dance. Short answer: no. When she’s out of office, then I’ll do the happy dance. With an AK-47 that has a 30-round magazine. And a shoulder thing that goes up.

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Roland the Headless CNN Correspondant.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

CNN is suspending political analyst Roland Martin for tweets during the Super Bowl that the network said were “offensive” and that some critics said were anti-gay.

Actually, I don’t care that much about Roland Martin, CNN, or Twitter. But I couldn’t pass up a chance to make a reference to my own personal favorite Warren Zevon song. As a matter of fact, why don’t we listen to it now?

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